Your message dated Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:52:58 +0100
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#807091: Bug#807091: xfce4-terminal
fails to start with an error message
has caused the Debian Bug report #807091,
regarding xfce4-terminal fails to start with an error message
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
807091: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807091
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.6.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Launching xfce4-terminal as normal user gives the following error message in an
error window:
"Failed to execute child
grantpt failed: Operation not permitted"
After closing the error message, the terminal window appears, but there
is no shell started in it.
If I gain superuser rights via su and execute xfce4-terminal, the
terminal launches (with an error message saying "Failed to connect to
session manager: [...]".
Some reports on the internet suggested that this might be a permission
problem with /dev/pts. However, I do not have an entry for /dev/pts in
my /etc/fstab and the rights are as follows:
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
This (non-)behaviour of xfce4-terminal is fairly new, but I cannot
pinpoint it to any recent update as I usually keep up just one instance
of the terminal for some time.
Thanks
Thomas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii exo-utils 0.10.7-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.21-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.28-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libvte9 1:0.28.2-5+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.12.1-2
ii libxfce4util7 4.12.1-2
Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.10.6-1
xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On lun., 2015-12-07 at 15:17 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> Hi Yves,
> thanks for the quick reply.
>
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 02:51:15PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > Launching xfce4-terminal as normal user gives the following error
> > > message in
> > > an error window:
> > > "Failed to execute child
> > > grantpt failed: Operation not permitted"
> > > [snip]
> >
> > Well, I surely can't reproduce, so you'll need to investigate more on your
> > side. Try running it through strace to check exactly where the grantpt
> > operation is failed.
> >
> > In any case, it doesn't look xfce4-terminal related at first sight.
>
> You are right, this is indeed #806882 and not related/limited to xfce4-
> terminal.
> I have some devpts entries mounted in chroots, so I was bitten by this.
>
> Feel free to close/block the report as you see fit.
>
Ok :)
--
Yves-Alexis
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
--- End Message ---
_______________________________________________
Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
